In October, Class Central wrote about CreativeLive shutting down on December 31, 2025. That article led to a series of events that actually saved the platform. Just two weeks before the deadline, on December 15, CourseHorse, an online marketplace of live classes, workshops, and experiences, acquired it for an undisclosed amount. The website is no longer closing at the end of the year. In 2021, Fiverr acquired it for $11 million. Four years later, in May 2025, the platform stopped accepting new

How online courses providers shape their sites and content to appeal to the Google algorithm.

In January each year, Class Central publishes a list of the most popular online courses released by major course providers in the previous 12 months. The most popular course in the latest list turned out to be Google AI Essentials, launched by Coursera in April, 2024. More than 900,000 learners have enrolled, more than the combined total of all new courses launched on edX, FutureLearn, and Swayam in the same year. What’s even more surprising is that (unlike the vast majority of Coursera course

Since December 16th, ChatGPT Search traffic to Class Central has grown threefold, becoming one of the site’s top 5 traffic sources